Memes like this hold the key to happiness. “Focus on yourself. You’ve done enough for the ungrateful.”
You will make the world a better place when you stop caring about the needs of others and focus entirely on yourself. Beware! It won’t be easy!
Many people are worse off than yourself. You may be tempted to show compassion for these pathetic creatures but you’ve already done enough! Don’t give any more! Don’t care any more! Focus on yourself.
It is easier to keep from thinking about other people if you increase the number of activities that only benefit you. Take three or four baths per day. Increase your alcohol consumption. Smoke weed. Eat more empty calories. Use your cell phone while you drive. Listen to music in public without headphones. Interrupt people who are speaking. Spend more money gambling. In between all this self-care, worry that you’re still not doing enough for yourself.
Immediately stop going to church. You might occasionally hear that God wants you to think about other people. You don’t need to deal with guilt. You’ve done enough.
This is important. If you have kids, send them away frequently. It is impossible to focus on yourself and meet the needs of children. Put kids in public school. Enroll them in extra-curricular activities. Ship them off to their grandparents every weekend. If you keep your kids around, you might focus on them. Children are the most ungrateful people on Earth. You’ve done enough for them.
It’s totally okay to make kindness contingent on the gratitude of others. You are allowed to turn your back on people who don’t show you enough appreciation. Your inner beauty is not diminished by your overflowing bitterness. Focusing on yourself is a good way to model gratitude. Others will see your contempt for them and become more grateful.
You’ve done so much! Your vain conceit is well earned. Focus on you and prepare for the rich blessings that selfishness always produces.
(Philippians 2:3) “Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others.”
